Russian Reactor Design History

Until faced with the overwhelming, indeed nation-threatening, danger posed by the German assault, Soviet physicists had been working on a diverse assortment of projects, including experiments with nuclear material. With the outbreak of global war and the major Russian retreats, the physicists quickly abandoned their early 

Filburn, S. Bullard, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, 

On August 6,1945 the US dropped the weapon codenamed Little Boy over 

Also in December 1945, the Soviets started Laboratory 3 whose charter was to perform research into heavy water (Kruglov, 2002). During the war, German scientists 

At this stage in their development, the Soviets were most interested in nuclear research as a way to develop atomic weapons, hence the value of the plutonium produced by the F-1. For weapons production, however, much larger quantities of plutonium were needed. The F-1 reactor simply could not produce enough to support a weapons program. Therefore, the Soviets specifically built a plutonium production reactor, known as Reactor A, near Kyshtym City in the Southern Urals (Kruglov, 2002). Some confusion exists about this site, because as an attempt to 

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The next sections will go deeper into each one of the USSR and Russian GEN-IV reactor designs, covering the history, technological capabilities, and future plans. 

The VBER-150, ABV, and KLT-20 concepts have been developed by the Russian design and industrial consortia having a long history of support of the Russian marine reactor programmes they have a potential to become commercially available in the near term. Specifically, the KLT-20 is a downsized version of the KLT-40S floating plant [2] the latter has been started in construction in the Russian Federation in June 2006 and would be deployed 2010. 

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